I am a big fan of the Spring Ankle Series from Cal Dietz and I think we do need to spend time developing and strengthening the ankle complex
Here are some of my takeaways:
SL RDL I believe is arguably one of the best bangs for your buck.
- Hip IR
- Position Chain Work
- Hip Ext
- Core engagement
- Stability
- Unilateral
- Multiple loading alternatives
- BW, KB, DB, BB
- Can be Hand supported or unsupported
Maybe you saw on IG, maybe you didn’t.
If ya didn’t, I accepted an assistant S&C position at West Point working with MBB!
I’m super pumped to get started!
Floors are up!
@CoachBeef_
, myself,
@KC1400mg
@ZoPhillips_1400
@GoJSUTigers
All working really hard to improve the athlete experience, resources, and win championships!
The support is amazing!!
Can’t wait to show y’all the end result!
Year 29 around the block starts today!
Feeling young, blessed & grateful!
New Program, New Year, New Athletes, still chasing championships!
Very excited for this opportunity as Director of Basketball at JSU!!
Let’s work!
Believe it or not ……
You don’t need to spend 2 hours in the gym
Actually 45-60 minutes of a focused session is way better than 1.5 or 2 hours of unfocused time.
Be smart - don’t make it more complicated than it is.
Basketball athletes need MORE Max Velocity training!!
Majority of their sport is sub max running with a lot of intermittent start/stop.
Increasing Max V, will increase sub max speed & speed reserve!!
In Season training - don’t forget to keep the main thing the main thing.
Reducing ROM helps keep your intensity high, reduces CNS & Muscular Fatigue, and helps keep your athletes resilient.
Rep volume goes down, sets increase, weight increases as well.
Bookmark for later!
With conference play starting for 🏀
The physical demands of conference play tends to ⬆️
Guys are having more and more contact, getting pushed around & most people stop training as hard or as often.
Keeping guys strong & robust is going to help you especially in close games
Jumping into the season!
Part of our programming is using both extensive and intensive jumps in different planes that reflect the athletes sport.
Training = Testing
Testing = Training
‼️MASSIVE PROBLEM‼️
This is a response from a college 🏀player - sport coach isn’t letting/doesn’t want them lift with their S&C coach
Teams injuries are ⬆️
Daily Conditioning ⬆️
Team wins are ⬇️
Players strength, speed, and confidence are ⬇️
Load Monitoring = non-existent
Improvement in-season is very important.
Improving physical qualities helps our athletes apply their skills more effectively and efficiently.
The Work is always gonna be there.
One of the most important things, is getting people to believe in themselves.
Once they believe in themselves, they will want more, dream bigger, and achieve more.
The work is the work!
You can’t get around it, you can’t cheat it, and you can’t half ass it.
Especially if you want results.
Man, it takes what it takes!!!
A Year in Review for The Coaches Table Podcast
- 53 Countries Reached
- Top 50% of All Podcasts Published
- 75 Episodes Published
- 13 5 ⭐️ Reviews
Very proud of this for not even being a full 12 months, moving across the country, new job, re-doing a weight room & much more!
7 ways you can use data is S&C & Sports Science:
1) Planning and Programming
2) Tracking progress
3) Decision Making
4) Reporting (internal & external)
5) Experimentation & Intervention
6) Demonstrate Impact
7) Visualization
Not an Exhaustive List but a great start
The top 3 “abilities” for athletes:
1) Availability
2) Durability
3) Coach ability
Be available to play the sport, be able to handle the demands of the season, and have the ability to get better, and ask questions.
Engaging them in training with an external objective and cue helps drive intent and fun in training.
An external objective like touching the ceiling, jumping past this cone, putting post it notes on the walls, etc.
These are great ways to drive competitive and show progress.
Men’s Tennis practice cancelled due to serve weather - no issue.
We came in lifted an extra day, and finished with MB Volleyball - games to 5.
Tried to replicate practice & competing as much as we could.
Guys loved it, energy & competition was high!
Your total training & practice time is 1-3 hours of your day, you have 20+ hours to get yourself right for the next day
Put another way:
1 hour is 4%
2 hours is 8%
3 hours is 12%
You have over 80% of your time to get your nutrition, recovery & sleep in
Prioritize accordingly
1. When we sprint we absorb and withstand forces of roughly 3-5x our body weight in under 250 milliseconds. Example being if you weigh 250lbs you absorb up to roughly 1,250lbs or more.
This is a huge point.
Something we don’t talk about & show enough!
Love your athletes, love the development of them, love the process of serving them, love developing a relationship with them, love the challenges and successes!
Show more love and appreciate them in the moment!
Friendly reminder that you don’t have to be “super sore” or “sore” days after a workout for it to be effective!
Get quality work in, Touch your adaptation, then go get food & sleep!
Create a competitive environment that reflects the sports demands and skills.
Does this mean they will be better at this particular skill?
Potentially, but may not have a 100% direct transfer, however, providing a space to try new things (in a safe way) is critical for them
IMO one of the most under utilized exercises is the inverted row.
Whether it’s TRX Row, Smith Machine or BB inverted row.
What’s good about it?
- Easy to progress (harder or easier)
- BW Exercise
- Easy to Learn
- High ROI
- Team Setting Friendly
Man this is what keeps me going with the podcast!
Helping coaches, bringing great people on, and supporting each other!
If you aren’t listening you are truly missing out!
See what others are saying 👇👇‼️‼️
3 things to do If one of your athletes get injured (sad)
✅ Check on their mental space & talk with them
✅ Make sure they still feel included in lifting & practice sessions!
✅ Make sure they are eating enough food!
A lot of times injured athletes get pushed off to the side
Learning how to implement FRC in large and small teams with
@CoachDJohnson01
Drops tomorrow at 1pm EST on all platforms!
- Implementing FRC
- Weight Room logistics
- Get more 💰 💰
&
Much more!
2. The foot is the only contact point with the ground, therefore, if our feet can’t absorb and withstand these forces they travel up the chain, to the knee, whose primary job is stability (according to the stability/mobility continuum), so these forces will continue up to the hip
Stop wasting days, put in the intentional effort and take pride in yourself and your business ‼️‼️
Too many of y’all BS’ing and y’all want/expect the world to be handed to you!
Wake up bro before it’s too late
Ep. 11 with
@saucyy_vic
is one you NEED to listen to!!
- How to develop relationships
- Basketball performance
- Overcoming Obstacles
- So much more
You will take away so many lessons from this conversation!
Available on YouTube & All Audio Platforms 👇 👇
Why you are so wrong about “mental toughness” training.
Episode 50 with
@timkettenring13
helps you understand what it actually is.
Learn more about skill acquisition, applying periodization to skill acquisition and much much more!
Links below! 👇👇
The Game is the ultimate KPI
Watch it
Understand how you can measure it
How you can quantify it
How you can train & improve those qualities
Watch the game
Crossover steps, slides, contact prep, jump, decel, etc. - it’s all there you just gotta watch it
THEE TOUR
Energy system development is the most bastardized aspect of training by a long shot. What’s the result?
Doing what’s always been done or doing what’s easy to program but really really hard.
Gassers 300y shuttles 110s
Easy as hell to program…not even close to real sport needs
One of the biggest traits I’ve learned being a leader - is your speed of decision making is what can make you or break you.
If you are overwhelmed, it’s probably because you are NOT making decisions.
When you don’t make decisions, you can’t give clear and concise directions.
Extensive DL 90 degree Jumps
We utilize submax jumps often, especially when it’s a new movement and to build confidence in their abilities to do the movement correctly.
Overall for their first time, not terrible.
Episode 5 - drops at 1PM EST Today w/
@JoeAratari
- Building Relationships with athletes
- Showcasing your results
- Communicate with all coaches
- Much more!
Available on Spotify, YouTube & Apple
When’s the last time you did curvilinear running?
While you still should do straight line Max V running, the majority of time in a sport is on a curve.
Whether you are evading a defender, attempting to create space, or coming off a maneuver - curved running is occurring.
Had my athletes run through the 8 Vector ESD this past week!
This will be a staple in their program going forward, they loved it and it checks a lot of boxes for us!
Here is a tool that I use for my athletes - it’s an athlete dashboard that shows current date for each athlete.
Essential, this tells me a couple of things:
1) where the athletes strength & weaknesses are
2) where they are in relation to the team.
Just the beginning here!
Episode 6 w/
@Brandon_L_Pigg
is live!!
- How to Manage 200 athletes in 2 hours
- From selling Pest Control door to door to coach athletes
- Understanding logistics
- Much More!
Available on all platforms & YouTube!